I don't know. It's the name of a piece of IKEA furniture.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S79887609/
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Simon MacDonald
wrote:
> Actually the umlat was a joke. To me an umlat conjures up images of
> 1970's and 80's hair metal bands so I'd say leave it out. Apache
> Heimdall sounds good to me too.
>
> Simon Mac Donald
> http://hi.im/simonmacdonald
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> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Laurent Hasson wrote:
>> Was looking at those too a few days ago... You need to consider ease of spelling for people and easy searchability, so the umlat is cute, but hard to type for most people I expect :)
>>
>> But otherwise, +1 on the idea. That's exactly the type of name we need.
>>
>>
>> Thank you
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Grobmeier [mailto:grobmeier@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 12:27 PM
>> To: callback-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: finding a new name that isn't PhoneGap
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Simon MacDonald
>> wrote:
>>> However, I would be remiss not to push my own suggestion one more
>>> time. I'd go with Apache Bifröst (complete with umlat). The Bifröst is
>>> a bridge in Norse mythos that connects Midgard (Earth) with Asgard
>>> (realm of the gods). In our connotation it would connect the native
>>> layer (Earth) with the web layer (realm of the gods).
>>
>> I am a huge fan of norther mythology and therefore love this suggestion.
>>
>> But one needs to consider that a trojan horse has been called Bifröst too:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifrost_(trojan_horse)
>>
>> Other spellings are Bilröst, Beberast and Ásbrú.
>>
>> What comes to mind is the Ase Heimdall is protecting this bridge.
>> Probably Apache Heimdall would make another good one.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Christian
>>
>>>
>>> Simon Mac Donald
>>> http://hi.im/simonmacdonald
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Viras wrote:
>>>> For all cordoba fans you maybe should google for cordoba 1978 ;).
>>>>
>>>> In general I would avoid a place name for use as a brand, since it is
>>>> already a "brand" by definition.
>>>> In addition taking a look at geonames and searching for cordoba reveals
>>>> many similar place names:
>>>> http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=cordoba&country=
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Wolfgang
>>>>
>>>> Am 03.11.2011 09:45, schrieb Bertrand Delacretaz:
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Jesse MacFadyen wrote:
>>>>>> +1 for Gastown. That's a great name.
>>>>>
>>>>> Except that many french-speaking people will inevitably think of
>>>>> http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/ - a comic about a stupid (and funny)
>>>>> office worker named Gaston Lagaffe, which means something like "Gaston
>>>>> Mishap".
>>>>>
>>>>> -Bertrand
>>>>>
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